Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 9, issue 1, 1971

Regional cost differentials and textile location: A statistical analysis pp. 3-34

David P. Doane

Pre-civil war land policy and the growth of manufacturing pp. 35-48

Peter Passell and Maria Schmundt

Conjectural estimates of gross human capital inflows to the American economy: 1790-1860 pp. 49-61

Paul Uselding

The financial role of merchants in the development of U.S. manufacturing, 1815-1860 pp. 63-87

Harold C. Livesay and Glenn Porter

From damnation to redemption: Judgments on the late victorian entrepreneur pp. 89-108

Deirdre McCloskey and Lars G. Sandberg

The English money stock 1834-1844 pp. 111-143

Douglas K. Adie

Observation and measurement of technological change pp. 145-177

Gerald E. Flueckiger

Economic empiricism in the writing of early railway engineers pp. 179-196

Robert Ekelund

American banking and growth in the nineteenth century: A partial view of the terrain pp. 197-227

Richard Sylla

Clio sells sterling short pp. 229-229

Claire Voyant

The social savings from nineteenth-century rail passenger services pp. 233-254

J. Hayden Boyd and Gary M. Walton

Guy Stevens Callender: A founding father of American economic history pp. 255-267

Saul Engelbourg

Alternative interpretations of market saturation: Evaluation for the automobile market in the late twenties pp. 269-290

Lloyd J. Mercer and W. Douglas Morgan

Technical progess at the Springfield Armory, 1820-1850 pp. 291-316

Paul J. Uselding

Economic change in Thailand, 1850-1970, Second edition: James C. Ingram, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971), 361 pages, $10 pp. 317-319

David Feeny

Pioneers for profit: Foreign entrepreneurship and Russian industrialization 1885-1913: John P. McKay, (University of Chicago Press, 1970), 441 pages, $11.50 pp. 319-322

Fred Carstensen

Railroads and Italian industrial growth, 1861-1913 pp. 325-351

Stefano Fenoaltea

The improving health of the United States, 1850-1915 pp. 353-373

Edward Meeker

The impact of the ante-bellum tariff on income distribution pp. 375-421

Clayne Pope

A closer look at canals and western manufacturing in the canal era: A reply pp. 423-424

Albert Niemi

A rebuttal pp. 425-426

Roger L. Ransom

A note on British cotton cloth exports to the United States: 1815-1860 pp. 427-428

Lars G. Sandberg

Essays on a mature economy: Britain after 1840: D. N. McCloskey (ed), (Methuen Publishers and Princeton University Press, 1971), 439 pp. $12.50 pp. 429-432

C. H. Lee

Volume 8, issue 4, 1971

Education and literacy in Meiji Japan: An interpretation pp. 371-394

Koji Taira

Monetization and integration of markets in Tokugawa Japan: A spectral analysis pp. 395-423

William J. Duffy and Kozo Yamamura

The ricardian theory of factor-shares pp. 425-444

Professor K. V. S. Sastri

Elements of induced innovation: A historical perspective for the green revolution pp. 445-472

Yujiro Hayami

Industrialization and interregional interest rate structure the Japanese case: 1889-1925 pp. 473-499

Kenneth Lewis and Kozo Yamamura

A closer look at canals and western manufacturing pp. 501-508

Roger L. Ransom

Volume 8, issue 3, 1971

Urbanization and the growth of the service workforce pp. 241-258

Thomas Weiss

Housing surplus in the 1920's? pp. 259-283

Ben Bolch, Rendigs Fels and Marshall McMahon

The urban location of United States invention, 1860-1910 pp. 285-303

Irwin Feller

The increasing urbanization thesis-did new immigrants to the United States have a particular fondness for urban life? pp. 305-319

Lowell E. Gallaway and Richard K. Vedder

International capital movements and economic activity: The United States experience, 1870-1968 pp. 321-341

Vittorio Bonomo

Background conditions and the spectral analytic test of the long swings hypothesis pp. 343-351

Barry W. Poulson and J. Malcolm Dowling

The relative efficiency of slavery: A comparison of northern and southern agriculture in 1860 pp. 353-367

Robert Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman

Volume 8, issue 2, 1970

Obstacles to technical diffusion in ocean shipping, 1675-1775 pp. 123-140

Gary M Walton

Britain's loss from foreign industrialization: A provisional estimate pp. 141-152

Deirdre McCloskey

Ohio and Mississippi River transportation 1810-1860 pp. 153-180

Erik F Haites and James Mak

Von Thunen theory and the dynamics of agricultural expansion pp. 181-201

Richard Peet

Williamson and Swanson on city growth: A critique pp. 203-211

Robert Higgs

A model of urban capital formation and the growth of cities in history pp. 213-222

Joseph Swanson and Jeffrey Williamson

Enclosures and population movements in England, 1700-1830: A methodological comment pp. 223-227

John A Tomaske

The unbound prometheus: A review pp. 229-237

Rondo Cameron

Volume 8, issue 1, 1970

Editor's note pp. 3-3

Ralph Andreano

Commodity exports from the British North American colonies to overseas areas, 1768-1772: Magnitudes and patterns of trade pp. 5-76

James F. Shepherd

Income taxation and capital formation in Wisconsin, 1911-1929 pp. 77-102

W. Elliot Brownlee

The economics and politics of mass collectivization reconsidered: A review article pp. 103-116

James R. Millar and Corinne A. Guntzel

A direction for social welfare history: A book review pp. 117-120

Daniel Levine

Volume 7, issue 1-2, 1969

Preface pp. v-vi

David Herlihy, Robert S. Lopez and Vsevolod Slessarev

To the friends of Robert L. Reynolds pp. ix-ix

Sarah Chickering Reynolds

Medieval slavers pp. 1-14

Charles Verlinden

The contract according to the genoese notarial records of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries pp. 15-33

Raymond de Roover

Stars and spices: The earliest Italian manual of commercial practice pp. 35-42

Robert S. Lopez

Italian merchants and the performance of papal banking functions in the early thirteenth century pp. 43-63

Glenn Olsen

The drapers of lucca and the marketing of cloth in the mid-thirteenth century pp. 65-73

Thomas W. Blomquist

Symon de Gualterio: A brief portrait of a thirteenth-century man of affairs pp. 75-94

Richard D. Face

The pound-value of Genoa's Maritime trade in 1161 pp. 95-111

Vsevolod Slessarev

Italian bankers and Philip the fair pp. 113-121

Joseph R. Strayer

Some industrial price movements in medieval genoa (1155-1255) pp. 123-139

William N. Bonds

A venetian naval expedition of 1224 pp. 141-151

Louise Buenger Robbert

Notes on medieval english weights and measures in Francesco Balducci Pegolotti's La pratica della mercatura pp. 153-159

Ronald Edward Zupko

The crossbow in the nautical revolution of the middle ages pp. 161-171

Frederic C. Lane

Family solidarity in medieval Italian history pp. 173-184

David Herlihy

Patriapotestas, regia potestas, and rex imperator pp. 185-204

Gaines Post

Direct taxation in a medieval commune: The in Siena, 1287-1355 pp. 205-221

William M. Bowsky

The civic irresponsibility of the Venetian nobility pp. 223-235

Donald E. Queller

Civism and Roman Law in fourteenth-century Italian society pp. 237-254

Peter Riesenberg

The tax buyer as a frontier investor type pp. 257-292

Robert P. Swierenga

The federal government as townsite speculator pp. 293-312

Robert Nesbit

The genesis of capitalism in the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century pp. 313-324

N. Todorov

Occupational convergence and the role of the military in economic development pp. 325-346

Paul A. Weinstein

Some problems in indentifying the role of entrepreneurship in economic development: The Nigerian case pp. 347-369

John R. Harris

Oligopoly in small manufacturing industries pp. 371-379

Patrick G. Porter and Harold C. Livesay

Edmond Jean Forstall and Louisiana banking pp. 383-398

Irene D. Neu

The Louisiana Bank act of 1842: Policy making during financial crisis pp. 399-412

George D. Green

Comparative enterprise and economic systems pp. 413-432

Arthur Schweitzer

An exploration in entrepreneurial motivation and action pp. 433-449

Herman Freudenberger

Chinese dominance of treaty port commerce and its implications, 1860-1875 pp. 451-473

Thomas Rawski

The formation of the Sudetendeutsche Bergbau-A.G pp. 475-494

Clifford Neal Smith

Captain swing: A review pp. 495-497

M. W. Flinn

A further look at interregional canals and economic specialization: 1820-1840 pp. 499-520

Albert Niemi

Estimates of the costs of schooling in 1880 and 1890 pp. 531-581

Lewis C. Solmon